How do you sponsor teams?

How do you guys/girls sponsor your teams? What kind of deals do you offer potiential teams? What do you ask of them? What do you do IF they don't fulfill thier contract?

I have offered at cost paint, free field fees, free air, discounted equipment and free paint if they placed at tournies. It works for a while but they then start slacking and not wanting to help out with the reffing or field design, etc.

Well for the feidl i play for (paintball central of greenville) we get the discounts in return...clean up OUR mess after practice..scince our practice is late we each was down 2 bunkers on the air ball feild to help the refs out... helf with low mantinece...and orur coach just says if he feels like your not loyal to the sponsors (pbc) or team then you just wont play for the team

I agree with admiral sounds like you our giving them a nice sponsorship and if they are not holding up their end of the deal then you need to take a sort of action to let them know your not satisfied with their efforts. Probably just talking to them would solve it.

How do you guys/girls sponsor your teams? What kind of deals do you offer potiential teams? What do you ask of them? What do you do IF they don't fulfill thier contract?

I have offered at cost paint, free field fees, free air, discounted equipment and free paint if they placed at tournies. It works for a while but they then start slacking and not wanting to help out with the reffing or field design, etc.

Give me some ideas please.

Thanks

One of the classic ways of making sure someone keeps up their end of the deal is not paying them until after they've done what they're supposed to. If they start slacking off, make them pay full price for the month, or whatever the time range you'd like it to be, then if they do what they're supposed to, reimburse them at the end of the month according to the discounts.

If that was a bit too wordy for some of you, let me put it in the form of an example:

Players on sponsored team get caught slacking off. Players on sponsored team get charged full price on everything for one month. At the end of the month, if they have fulfilled their duties per the terms of the sponsorship, they receive money back so that they only end up paying what the sponsorship deal is. (Say that paint is $60 a case but the sponsorship allows for $30 a case. They pay $60/case during the month and at the end they receive $30 back for every case purchased).

im on my fields team and the way the do things is we get free air at practice and if we come and help out like the weekend before our practice we get discounted paint and then after we play we help clean the fields

We give free entry at field.
All air is free at store or field
All gun teching free.
Practice BYOP
All team clothing at cost.
Discounts at the store if I can.
If I can afford it I pay entry to tourneys.(they don't play in our tourneys at the field they ref it)

In return they ref a couple of game during the day at open play or ref at private games. We are a small field.
Help setup bunker.
Most guys have been with me for years and have no problems get any new one either.
Not much but I don't get much either.

I have done several ways and this seem to work.

In the past all items at cost at store or field is ok till the sell items at above the cost they were sold it. And come back for more and do it over and over. Paid all entrys to tourneys. And it was harder to get help at field.

Our first year being sponsored by the local field we had to ref his BYOP days. In return we would get free air/field fee/discounted paint. But he stated at the beginning of the year that if we did a good job that year, the next year he would give us X amount of dollars towards our tournies. But if we didn't hold our end he just wouldn't continue with said discounts.

The only teams I sponsor are the ones that come out to the field and put in some labor to help maintain or build new structure. I have had plenty who ask me to let them play for free so they can afford to go to an event somewhere else and "promote" Smak Zone, but do not want to put in any work on the field that they want to play at for free. So, I ask them, "Let me get this straight. You want me to let you play here for free so you can go to another field and spend your money there?" I usually get something of a dumb look.

I have very few sponsors of my field. Maddman Products comes to two events per year and vend and they throw in some things to give away, even a marker sometimes. Springfield Paintball, who does our air service (used to provide the Kick'n Paint as well, but the quality has gone downhill too badly on that now) also puts up some booty fo the drawings. Other than that, most of the players are happy with a fun, safe game with mostly honorable players.

like almost everyone else has said: if they slack on you, then you pull on them by making them pay at price again. Another thing though is- make sure you have defined rules about the sponsorship and what they're required to do, or players will not keep committed, or try to sneak around just word of mouth rules.

We discount paint, help on prices if we can for a team purchase (masks, jerseys, pants) but they are required to reff tournaments and are required to play atleast three of our tournament a year, we usually have about five 3man and five 5man tournaments and sometimes a 7 man.